2nd week in TEXAS!!

hi family
i love you so flechen much. you know its always nice to get letters
and long letters at that (or emails) so thank you very much for all
writing me this week.
yes i got your package. it was great! i loved the Swedish fish and the
cd. dakota sounds like he is freaking out in his letters. its kind of
funny because you get to a certan point in your mission and you relize
that your going home. so you eather give up on the mission because you
dont care because your going home. or you work your hardest and make
the time that you have left count. it sounds like he is making his
time count. and i will do the same as well.
so this week has been good.
monday was my fist pday in texas, its so much diffrent here. there is
actually a town that you can visit and people that you can do stuff
with. so we did normal stuff shoping and laundry and email. but then
we went to this members house. there a family in the ward that loves
the missionarys. they invited us over for dinner and stuff all the
time. we played ping pong, basketball, football, and went swiming.
(just kidding. just seeing if your paying attention) then we cleaned
the bloody house. man the appartment is hard to keep clean with four
men living there and four other missionarys visiting and eating with
us. the appartment just becomes a mess in like five minutes.
on tuesday my comp and elder beams comp woke up late. and so me and
elder beams decided to teach them a lesson about sleeping in. we left
them and went trackting. and got five new investigators. then after
that we biked together and ate at this restaurant called on the
border. it was mexican. really good.  you would have hated it mom
because there is no such thing as a picky mexican there. everything
has like 50 diffrent ingredents and toppings.
on wednsday we were riding our bikes around and got super lost. elder
dalia has only been in this area for six weeks so he doesnt really
know were he is goings. so we just biked and biked and biked. elder
dalias odomider said we went 25 miles out. so we started bike ing back
and there was a lady doing yard work. so we stoped and asked if she
needed any help? she said she was good but we knew that she needed
help. (with the gosple) so we started asking her if she spoke to
missionarys before and what was going on in her life at this time. she
said her mom and her grandma just died and like all kinds of death in
her family. and she was like why does god allow all this to happend to
me. (as soon as someone says that its golden)
so we taught her half the restoration and half the plan of salvation
on her front porch because there wasnt another male home. she was like
supper into it. asking questions reading crying the whole ball of wax.
and she said "if i find out this is true how do i join my self to you
guys?" so we invited her to be babtized. and she said she would. she
was so excited she was like bouncing in her seat.
thursday we helped a couple of familys move in. this ward is growing
so fast its crazy. we had like 10 familys move in, in like 3 weeks.
this one guy that we moved in is really in to nerf wars and stuff. he
had over 200 guns. and all the swords and like ammo out the wazoo. he
has as much nerf stuff as dad does hunting and fishing.
friday was district meeting. good, normal, missionary work, easy. than
we went on exchanges and elder otuofi came with me and elder dalia. he
is from tonga, and he is so lagit. he want to learn how to play the
uke so bad his teeth hurt. i started teaching him songs. and he just
picked it up like a mad man. its in his blood i swear. so i let him
borrow it over the weekend. and he said he would draw tribal stuff on
it for me. but he is a really good missionary really humble and full
of love. he learned how to speak english on the mission so he is still
learning. its funny the way he discribes things. like we were at a
members house and they said that the dog died. and he asked if they
ate it? they looked at him funny and said no. and he whispered in my
ear, "how could they commit such a crime"
then on saterday we did some farm work for this guy that needed help
in the ward. and it was also the "Hotter than Hell" race its a really
big thing. like 14,000 people showed up to race in it. its a 100 mile
bike ride through witchita falls. and it was like 90 degrees out side.
so we helped give water to people on the side of the road. one guy we
talked to said he came from new Zealand to ride.
sunday was good, church and stuff. we had a lesson on the spirit and
the gifts it gives to us, like gift of tounges and prophecy and stuff.
it was really cool all the giftes that god gives us. after church we
saw this investigator and he is a radio dj or somthing. and he told us
that he loves the mormon church and what it stands for. and at his job
they used to air mormon ads on his christan radio station. then people
started yelling at him and told him to take them off. and preachers
were sending him hate mail, and death threats. but he wouldnt back
down and kept playing them. so finnally the owner told him to take
them off. and he said i would rather lose my job then take them off.
so he quit. it was a really powerfull testimony. from a guy that isnt
even a member of the church! that was about ten years ago. and he
hasnt seen or talked to any body about the mormon church since. and
then we knocked at his door. really really spiritual. he will get
babtized.
then we had dinner sunday night. and this family inited over there
friend to dinner. and dinner was great, and this guy started asking
questions about life and death. so we taught the plan of salvation.
and asked him to be babtized. he said yes! and the spirit was like
giving me high fives in the face the whole time. really cool we are
meeting with him on friday so hopfully everything is still going well.
so thats kind of my week. thanks for all you do for me. keep dakota
out of trouble. and tell him that he should jump right into school or
work or somthing that will take up his time. otherwise he will go
crazy and jump through the wall.
well good luck with life and i will talk to you next week.
love your favorite missionary
Elder Clements
Ps tell elder campble to keep his mind on the work instead of my sister.
pps there is no spell check on this computer so sorry?